OLD TRICK REVIVED.
" SPANISH PRISONER " AGAIN. LETTER TO RICH FRENCHMAN. The old Spanish prisoner swindle, which for so many years provided international rogues with comfortable incomes, is being revived again. A wealthy Paris manufacturer recently received from an address in Spain a letter in which the writer declared that, although he possessed a sum of £12,400 in French banknotes, he was then in prison on a charge of bankruptcy. The writer explains that the banknotes are locked in a trunk which he left in the cloakroom of a French station, and the receipt for which ho has preserved in a, secret hiding-place. The writer says that as ho cannot receive letters directly in prison his correspondent should telegraph to what is described as a confidential address to announce his willingness to advauce sufficient money to restore ihe prisoner to freedom. Tho prisoner generously adds that as soon as the necessary funds have enabled him to reclaim the precious trunkful of money he will hand over one-third of its contents to his benefactor.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20978, 15 September 1931, Page 11
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172OLD TRICK REVIVED. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20978, 15 September 1931, Page 11
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